Healthy Healthcare Resources
Reports
Download the Taking Toxics Out of Maryland’s Health Care Sector report (2008) by Beyond Pesticides and Maryland PesticideNetwork
- Read the press release
- Press conference video footage and media
On October 27, 2008 Beyond Pesticides, Maryland Pesticide Network and leading Maryland health and elder care facilities released, Taking Toxics out of Maryland’s Health Care Sector: Transition to Green Pest Management Practices to Protect Health and the Environment, a new report documenting practices and policies to eliminate toxic pesticide use. The changes reflect a heightened awareness of the need to protect particularly vulnerable populations from serious health risks associated with toxic chemical exposure. A growing body of scientific research links pesticides to Parkinson’s disease, asthma, cancer and other illnesses.
Media
- Taking Toxics Out of Maryland’s Health Care Sector report by Beyond Pesticides and Maryland Pesticide Network(10/27/08)
- Report press release
- Baltimore Sun: MD Hospitals, Care Facilities Working to Cut Their Use of Toxic Pesticides
- Baltimore Sun: 13 MD Health Facilities to Stop Using Pesticides
- Baltimore Examiner: Maryland Hospitals Cutting Ttoxic Pesticides
- The Daily Green: Pioneering Hospitals Ban Pesticides
- Maryland Pesticide Network executive director Ruth Berlin's press statement
- Beyond Pesticides executive director Jay Feldman's press statement
- IPM in Health Care Facilities Project director Mike Boeck's press statement
- Watch video press statements below:
Press statement: Ruth Berlin, executive director of Maryland Pesticide Network
Press statement: Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides
Press statement: Chris Seale, environmental services director of Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Healthy Hospitals report by Beyond Pesticides and Health Care Without Harm(11/23/03)
- Report press release
Model Policies, Plants, and Contracts
Additional Resources
- IPM Aftercare Brochure
- Webinar: Healthy Hospitals: Managing Facilities Without Toxic Pesticides Through IPM. Presenters include Jay Feldman, Beyond Pesticides; Tom Green, IPM Institute; and, Lionel Weeks, Practice Green Health.